112 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



doing good I have long found to 

 be its own reward. I would de- 

 vote any portion of my time to 

 procure you information. 



" Some, I believe, have really 

 died of starvation ; and in many 

 cases, if not the immediate it was 

 the 'primary cause. An insuffici- 

 ency of wholesome nourislmient 

 where they had been accustomed 

 to great abundance, produced 

 diseases which terminated in dis- 

 solution. 



" Even charity, Sir, has left 

 some of our districts. She has 

 given all she had to give ; the 

 stream of her benevolence is dried 

 up, and nothing remains but the 

 grateful recollection of the chan- 

 nel through which it flowed, or 

 emotions of despair lest it should 

 never again be replenished. 



" I could send you many in- 

 dividual cases that come under 

 my own personal knowledge. 

 Not far from my house, a respec- 

 table individual, possessed of ex- 

 tensive information in the iron- 

 trade, who had been a confiden- 

 tial foreman in a large concern, 

 and lived in much credit, has 

 been for some time, with a wife 

 and eight chiUhen, destitute of a 

 sufficiency of bread. Many poor 

 families (fistinguished for their 

 sobriety and industry, witli 5, 6, 

 7, or 8 children, ai'e in the same 

 disastrous circumstances : I have 

 myself repeatedly saved a man, 

 his Mife, and six cliildren, from 

 absolute starvation, who were 

 reduced to eat the cabbage-stalks, 

 and the refuse of their little cot- 

 tage-garden, as the only food 

 ihey could obtain." 



28. About three o'clock in the 

 afternoon was experienced at 

 Longpark, the most tremendous 



visitation of nature ever felt in 

 that neighbourhood. After a con- 

 siderable deal of thunder and 

 lightning, a dense whitish cloud 

 was observable, apparently about 

 Barrock, which advanced with 

 great rapidity, and, on its nearer 

 approacli, presented the appear- 

 ance of the waves of the sea tu- 

 multuouslyroUingover each other. 

 This phenomenon was doubtlessly 

 occasioned by the hail composing 

 the body of the cloud, and whirl- 

 ed along by the hurricane which 

 enveloped it. On reaching Long- 

 l)ark, a scene of desolation com- 

 menced : within ten minutes a 

 most tremendous volley of pieces 

 of ice, some of them an inch in 

 diameter, and impelled with the 

 violence of a hurricane, shattered 

 the windows of the houses, tore 

 up the turf, beat down the vege- 

 table products of the earth, and 

 did great and extensive damage. 

 Mr. James, of that place, had the 

 whole of his crop of barley, oats , 

 &c. completely cut down as with 

 a scythe ; it is calculated that 

 more than one half the produce 

 of the inhabitants of the village 

 is lost. Mr. James's loss alone is 

 estimated at 200l. The like de- 

 struction occurred in the neigh- 

 bourhood, and a few houses were 

 unroofed. At Whaldub about 14 

 acres of barley, belonging to one 

 person, were entirely destroyed, 

 besides other injruies. At Park- 

 broom the garden vegetables were 

 nearly all destroyed, and we have 

 the same account from Walby, 

 &c. The same afternoon the 

 hurricane visited Longtown and 

 the neighbourhood. At Nether- 

 by \ipwards of 700 panes of glass 

 were broken in the hot-houses of 

 Sir James Graham, Bart, j and 

 60 squares 



